β Scribed by Pascale Leclercq (editor); Amanda Edmonds (editor); Heather Hilton (editor)
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This book brings together ideas on identifying and measuring second language proficiency. The chapters introduce a range of tools for the evaluation of learners' language level with respect to both productive and receptive skills and provide a variety of answers to the question of how to assess L2 proficiency in a valid, reliable and practical way.
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. How to Assess L2 Proficiency? An Overview of Proficiency Assessment Research
Part 1: General Considerations for L2 Assessment
2. Oral Fluency and Spoken Proficiency: Considerations for Research and Testing
3. Multiple Assessments of Oral Proficiency: Evidence from a Collaborative Platform
4. Using Learner Corpora for Testing and Assessing L2 Proficiency
Part 2: Language Processing and L2 Proficiency
5. Listening Comprehension: Processing Demands and Assessment Issues
6. A Psycholinguistic Measurement of Second Language Proficiency: The Coefficient of Variation
7. Evaluating the Workings of Bilingual Memory with a Translation Recognition Task
Part 3: Focused Assessment Instruments
8. βRepeat as Much as You Canβ: Elicited Imitation as a Measure of Oral Proficiency in L2 French
9. Exploring the Acquisition of the French Subjunctive: Local Syntactic Context or Oral Proficiency?
10. Testing L2 Listening Proficiency: Reviewing Standardized Tests Within a Competence-Based Framework
11. Assessing Language Dominance with the Bilingual Language Profile
Epilogue
Index
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